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NEW YORK (AP) — Jerry Grote, the catcher who helped transform the New York Mets from a perennial loser into the 1969 World Series champion, died Sunday. He was 81. Grote had suffered from heart issues and died in Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute at St. David’s Medical Center in Austin, Texas, Mets spokesman Jay Horwitz […]

Grote helped transform the New York Mets from perennial losers into the 1969 World Series champions.

A two-time All-Star, Grote played 16 major league seasons and batted .252 with 39 homers and 404 RBIs.

Fort Worth’s Rickey Hill is the subject, of “The Hill,” the latest breakout hit movie on Netflix. What does the movie’s success means to him?

The inspiring sports film "The Hill," starring Colin Ford and Dennis Quaid, is the No. 1 film on Netflix in the U.S. But did Rickey Hills story happen in real life?

With its wildflowers, Texas history, and romantic B&Bs, Washington County is an enchanted April getaway.

Eyeing a long line of commercial hits, “The Hill” attempts to reverse-engineer the process, scraping together exceedingly overused truisms to concoct a hackneyed imitation.

BOSTON — An inspirational, baseball-centric, 1960s-70s-era tale based on the true story of Rickey Hill (Colin Ford, TV’s “Walker” as an adult), “The Hill” features an oxygen-depleting, central performance by

The human drama in The Hill is so bland that it’s hard to care and far too corny to be taken seriously.

"This movie brings me closer to Jesus because my story was ordained before I was in my mother’s womb.”